A slim majority of Americans (52%) support efforts to preserve the legacy and history of the Confederacy, while 44% oppose such efforts, a new poll finds.
Black Americans (25%) are the only racial group without majority support for efforts to preserve the legacy and history of the Confederacy, compared with 58% of white Americans and 54% of Latinos, PRRI said.
Gen Z (41%) is the only generation without majority support for preserving the legacy of the Confederacy, compared with two-thirds of the Silent Generation (62%), 58% of Gen X, 56% of baby boomers, and 51% of millennials, PRRI wrote.
The Lost Cause myth was developed by white Southerners to portray the Civil War as a noble effort to protect 'states' rights' and the Southern way of life while downplaying the horrors of enslavement.
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